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From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war.
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
Australia, That Zincing Feeling
Hard on the heels of hearing about Alcoa slashing its production of alumina in Victoria, came the news of Sorbent moving its manufacturing of toilet rolls to foreign parts – we can only hope that standards are maintained – and then, just the other day, we learnt BHP is probably going to mothball its West Australian zinc mining. Three examples of a long-running continuation of deindustrialisation being given a big kick-along by the self-flagellation of replacing cheap coal power with intermittent, unreliable, expensive renewable power.
If you think that the loss of industry and jobs will give Chris Bowen, or Lily D’Ambrosio, Victoria’s minister for climate action, or any of the other climate cultists who dominate federal and state parliaments, any doubt about the wisdom of their cause, you have another think coming. You’ve mistaken these people. They are not for turning. Ouch! I feel like a traitor for using Lady Thatcher’s expression for the likes of these deluded…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
